Labour Court recommends review of worker’s course-fee reimbursement

The Labour Court recommended that The National Educational Welfare Board review a worker’s reimbursement for a postgraduate course after his appeal. The decision was signed on 18 March 2014. The course cost €6,085, and the Board reimbursed €3,500. The worker said conflict resolution was central to his daily work; the Board said the course was only partly relevant and that it had told him the reimbursement level before he began. The Court noted that the reimbursement scheme was discretionary and that the worker knew the offered level before taking the course. It recommended that the Board review the reimbursement in light of any submissions the union might make on his behalf, noting that he had no opportunity to appeal the initial decision.